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Eswau Huppeday lodge issued two different flaps for this year’s Dixie Fellowship. Even though they appeared the week before at the SR-7B Conclave, I thought I would hold off on a blog post for them until I got to all the other Dixie issues. Roger Ward and Greg Grimes brought these by my home so I could scan them for this site.

The first flap, pictured, is a depiction of “Eswau World”. The design was inspired by the relative proximity of this year’s conclave location to Carowinds.

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Jimmy Arthurs sends word of a new version of his lodge’s Beaver Day patch.  The prior issue had been used for the 2006 and 2007 Beaver Days.  The new version will first be used this year.

The design is identical to the patch I have labeled eX2006-4.   The only significant difference is a change in the border color from purple to black.  This patch is undated like the version released in 2006 and presumably will be used for more than one year.

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David Cody reminds us of a piece that has escaped Blue Book listing for a couple of decades.   This piece was issued by Tsungani chapter and is very rarely seen.    Few were made.   I have to wonder if any made it outside of the lodge, beyond any chapter members who may have moved and taken this with them.

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Things are kind of back to normal on this site, even if my personal life is now a complete mess.  In the week that this blog was off line, I had some new issues to report.   Now it’s time to start adding them here.

In late January Eswau Huppeday lodge hosted the annual Carolinas Indian Seminar.   As is customary in recent years, two patches were issued for the event.   Thanks to David Cody for providing the images for these issues.

Each year’s patch design has followed the same basic scheme: an arrowhead on a light blue background featuring a different style of dancer.  A fancy shawl dancer was featured on this year’s patches.

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David Cody, current lodge adviser for Esawu Huppeday lodge, recently sent me an image of the item pictured here.  Several of these were made and recently distributed in recognition of exceptional service to the lodge over the past year.   It’s certainly creative and a visually attractive piece of lodge memorabilia.

This piece is about 3.75″ across and made of wood.  I don’t expect to see it listed in Blue Book as I don’t believe it would be considered a “patch”.  

We jokingly thought about creating a new category for this item, just to play with some of my friends’ minds.   I had suggested “T” for timber as “W” (for wood?) is already used for another category.

I previously posted here the neckerchief made by a member of this lodge for the 2007 Dixie fellowship.   There was also a privately made neckerchief for the 2006 Dixie fellowship.  Thanks to David Cody and Jimmy Arthurs for filling me on on this.

There is a perpetual argument among some collectors over whether private issues should be listed in catalogues.     Some feel that listing such material legitimizes it in some way and fuels the demand for these pieces.   This argument seems to appear most frequently regarding private issues. 

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Eswau Huppeday lodge, prior to 2006, had a custom of issuing a neckerchief for the lodge’s section conclave delegation. They were usually made available on a one per person basis so they were rarely traded or sold. For various and sundry reasons these have not been that well documented and some have probably been forgotten about over the years. They have never been listed in Blue Book. Some have probably just been forgotten about.

There are also a few unlisted lodge NOAC delegate neckerchiefs that have similarly escaped Blue Book listing in the past.

Thanks to Jimmy Arthurs and David Cody for filling me in on these pieces.

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Eswau Huppeday Week” continues here at OAImages.

Here’s a tough question for those who try to classify Order of the Arrow patches. If a council produces, awards and sells a councilstrip without any direct involvement from the council’s lodge, but includes the lodge number in the design, should this be listed in Blue Book and this site with the lodge’s issues?

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Eswau Huppeday lodge adopted a Batman theme for their current program year.   The theme figures prominently on their lodge event patches as well as the flap issued for this year’s Dixie Fellowship.   In keeping with this theme, six different neckechiefs were made for the Dixie Fellowship.   Thanks to Jimmy Arthurs and David Cody for tipping me off about these.

There is some question whether these items should be listed in Blue Book.   None of the neckerchiefs have anything on them indicating they are from Eswau Huppeday lodge, the Order of the Arrow, or even the BSA.  They are handmade, cut from cloth bought in a store and then hemmed.   Theoretically, if one could find the same cloth and knew the size of the neckerchiefs more of these could easily be made.   I am told all six were made in low quantities, ranging from about 10 to 30 each.

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Jimmy Arthurs sent me images last night of a bunch of recent activities patches from Eswau Huppeday.   Among them were the 2007 activites patches from this lodge.  Thanks.

The lodge issued the customary participant and staff patch from the Carolinas Indian Seminar as well as patches for their Spring Fellowship, Fall Fellowship and Winter Banquet.

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Here’s another oddity that many have not seen and I have no real idea what it should be.

While at the SC TOR this past weekend, someone told me Johnny Pleasants had on his table a red bordered flap with the S9 design.   “Impossible!”  I said, “There is no such flap.”  I walked over to Brush Creek’s table and asked Johnny about it.  He reaches into one of his bins and pulls out this piece.

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Eswau Huppeday 560 has issued their delegate flap for the upcoming SR-5 Conclave, the Dixie Fellowship.   Thanks to David Cody for providing me this image.

The lodge has chosen a Batman ™ theme for this year’s conclave.   An approximation of the well-known batwing logo is featured prominently on the flap.

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